Issue 16, Spring 2010: Money. Without a quality of its own, money is the purest currency we have – a coupon for our existence, an almighty abstraction of our exchange. It's the cheese in the mousetrap. Don't forget to chew.
In this issue
- Maria Alvarez, Still better to splash out than lose grip
- John Berger, In the hands of a mindful man
- James Buchan, Calculating a farm in Cyprus
- Brian Cronin, One little piggy
- Paul Davis, Untitled
- Terry Eagleton, Tribe of fallen overreachers
- Jonathan Ellery, Untitled
- Alfredo Falvo, Black and blue
- Andrew Feinstein, Brothers in arms
- Jeff Fisher, Untitled
- Jason Ford, Untitled
- Santiago Gamboa, Plastic tames the fear
- Maggie Gee, To love, to have, to spend, to give away your roots
- David Gibson, The Optimist
- Alicia Giménez-Bartlett, Wise wishes among tricks of the trade
- Paul Graham, Untitled
- Robin Hardie, Untitled
- Hannah Huddy and James Thomson, Hiding from the light
- Jaki Jo, Untitled
- Ben Jones, Untitled
- James Kelman, as if from nowhere
- Etgar Keret, Mob riots put halt to nice Indian summer
- Alberto Manguel, Mad tea party of crude values
- Sophia Martineck, Put the money in the bag and nobody gets hurt
- Mum, Letter
- Spencer Murphy, Architects of war
- Chloé Poizat, Confetti
- Manuel Puig, Romance and a clean tablecloth
- Simon Rich, Smart kid at the end of the popularity list
- Vincenzo Ruggiero, Lending wings to the freaks
- Andreas Schmidt, Business continues
- Leanne Shapton, Purse
- Simon Spilsbury, Untitled
- Miguel Syjuco, We'll be home soon, again
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Be a gentleman on the treadmill
- Cheryl Taylor, The money grabber
- Patrick Vale, Untitled
